Meredith Wallace, PhD, APRN-BC, has been a nurse since she completed her BSN degree Magna Cum Laude at Boston University in 1988. Following this, she earned an MSN in medical-surgical nursing with a specialty in geriatrics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in nursing research and theory development at New York University. During her time at NYU she was awarded a predoctoral fellowship at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. In this capacity she became the original author and editor of "Try This: Best Practices in Geriatric Nursing" series. In 2001, she won the Springer Publishing Compa...